What's new in Type2Phone 3.1.2
Oct 21, 2018
- Fixes a bug where Type2Phone failed to notice the initial connection from an iOS device
New in Type2Phone 3.1.1 (Oct 17, 2018)
- Fixes a bug where Type2Phone crashed on launch.
New in Type2Phone 3.1 (Sep 17, 2018)
- Type2Phone is now a 64-bit application
- Fixed a bug where Type2Phone failed to report the device name through AppleScript
New in Type2Phone 3.0.1 (Mar 9, 2016)
- Sometimes only minor bugs need fixing.
New in Type2Phone 3.0 (Nov 10, 2015)
- New icon
- Updated window appearance inspired by iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan
- iOS 9 Messages: Use Return to send texts. Use Option-Return to add a new line
- Added Special menu items for iOS 9 keyboard shortcuts
- Improved support for keyboard shortcuts
- Improvements to international keyboard layouts
- Many refinements based on customer feedback
New in Type2Phone 2.6 (Aug 27, 2014)
- Significant improvements to all keyboard layouts.
New in Type2Phone 2.5 (Apr 18, 2014)
- Enhancement: Added advanced preferences to tweak connection delay
- Enhancement: Added advanced preferences to tweak speed of generated keyboard input
- Bug fix: Type2Phone on occasion dropped characters typed while it was still connecting
- Bug fix: Sending text from AppleScript could fail if Type2Phone was inactive
New in Type2Phone 2.4.1 (Apr 4, 2014)
- New feature: Open iOS Spotlight by pressing F6 on your keyboard
- Bug fix: This version restores compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6
New in Type2Phone 2.4 (Mar 28, 2014)
- Added a compose window: prepare text to send to your iPhone / iPad
- Fixed connection problems with iOS 7.1
- Fixed problems with Page Up/Down, Home and End keys
- Updated documentation
New in Type2Phone 2.3 (Oct 17, 2013)
- Compatibility fixes for iOS 7.
- Adds the option to reconnect when brought to foreground.
- Fixes a bug where accents could get sent twice.
New in Type2Phone 2.2.3 (Sep 10, 2013)
- Support for aText Typing Accelerator
- Option to hide on deactivate
- Type2Phone now reconnects on tying of any key. Not just text and numbers
New in Type2Phone 2.2.2 (Aug 5, 2013)
- New feature: Support for Typinator
- Enhancement: Per-keyboard layout is now optional
- Bug fix: The caret character was not sent correctly for some keyboard layouts
- Bug fix: Special menu keyboard shortcuts were not activate upon launch
- Bug fix: The window size was not always restored correctly
New in Type2Phone 2.2.1 (Jul 3, 2013)
- New Feature: "Send using Type2Phone" available from the Services menu in many applications
- Enhancement: Enable discrete video card only once it is needed
- Bug fix: In Collapsed Mode the "will reconnect" message could overlap with buttons
- Bug fix: On occasion characters were lost on automatic reconnect
- Tested: Double-checked Russian keyboard layout to make sure it is indeed working as expected
New in Type2Phone 2.2 (Jun 21, 2013)
- New feature: per-device settings
- New feature: per-device keyboard layouts
- Bug fix: in Type2Phone 2.1, the backspace key failed to work with Apple TV
- Note: Please try disabling the "invert backspace and delete" option. You should not need it anymore.
New in Type2Phone 2.1 (Jun 15, 2013)
- New feature: Customizable keyboard shortcuts to reconnect to known devices
- New feature: Customizable keyboard shortcuts for items in the Special menu
- New feature: Key Sequences in the Special menu: Forward Delete, Delete Word, …
- New feature: Russian keyboard layout
- New feature: French Canadian keyboard layout
- New feature: Slovak and Slovak QWERTY keyboard layouts
- New feature: Thai keyboard layout
- New feature: Greek keyboard layout
- Enhancement: Enhancements to existing keyboard layouts
New in Type2Phone 2.0.3 (Apr 12, 2013)
- Fixed a bug where key presses could be lost or repeated on Mac OS X 10.6
- Fixed a bug where Type2Phone could accept incoming connections from Bluetooth headphones
- Fixed a bug where Type2Phone could stop forwarding keyboard input
New in Type2Phone 2.0.2 (Apr 2, 2013)
- Support for TextExpander Mac. Expand text snippets to your iOS device
- Support for "redo". Press command-shift-z
- Fixed key repeat. Press and hold a key for the letter to repeat on your iOS device
New in Type2Phone 2.0.1 (Mar 19, 2013)
- Adds support for the Czech QWERTY keyboard layout
- Fixes a bug where Type2Phone would accept connections from peripherals
- Fixes a bug which prevented dictation of "new line"
- Help now includes pairing instructions for Apple TV
New in Type2Phone 2.0 (Mar 4, 2013)
- Dictation. Type2Phone accepts input from Mac OS X Mountain Lion dictation
- Added a regular text field as alternative to the "key slide" animation
- Added support for the Czech keyboard layout
- Added support for Turkish and Turkish QWERTY keyboard layouts
- Added support for the Brazilian keyboard layout
- Option to automatically reconnect on wake from sleep
- Option to automatically reconnect on first key press
- Option to disconnect when sent to background
- Option to disconnect when idle for 5 minutes
- Option to swap backspace and delete keys. Enable in preferences
- Improved support for EMACS-style keyboard shortcuts. Enable in preferences
- Vastly improved AppleScript support: automatically reconnect, send raw HID key codes, …
- Remember window position between launches
- Added menu item to clear displayed text
- Added menu items to interact with VoiceOver on iOS
- Bug fixes to existing "key slide" animation
- Added gratuitous "key fly" animation
- Improved Accessibility support
- Implemented application sandboxing
New in Type2Phone 1.5 (Jun 7, 2012)
- Added Polish keyboard layout
- Enhanced AppleScript support
- Fixes to copy-paste with non-latin keyboard layouts
- Fixes an issue where the delete key was not sent correctly
New in Type2Phone 1.4 (Mar 13, 2012)
- Basic AppleScript support: reconnect, disconnect & send
- Fixes consumer key menu items
- Fixes an issue where the collapsed mode was not restored upon relaunch
New in Type2Phone 1.3.1 (Feb 9, 2012)
- Improved handling of function keys to allow for press and hold
- No longer forces the use of the discrete graphics card on newer MacBook Pros
- Fixes an issue where Type2Phone may hang upon returning from fast user switching
New in Type2Phone 1.3 (Jan 9, 2012)
- Added keyboard layouts: Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Danish
- Persistent display preferences
- Function keys (requires fresh pairing)
- Home and power button (requires fresh pairing)
- Option to reveal software keyboard
New in Type2Phone 1.2 (Dec 7, 2011)
- 5 more keyboard layouts supported
- Support for many more special characters
- Support for accented chars and umlauts on supported layouts
- Command-Space to switch keyboard layouts
- Stealth mode: show placeholders on Mac, rather than characters
- Collapsed mode: minimal window with no animation
- Bug fixes
New in Type2Phone 1.1 (Nov 19, 2011)
- Adds support for the Swiss-French iOS keyboard layout